5th grade Unit 2 Non Fiction Reading and Essay Writing 2011-2012
Start Date: 9/20/11 End Date: 10/21/11
UNIT OVERVIEW: This unit focuses on developing strategies to support students in reading and writing non-fiction.In reading, students willuse non-fiction text structures (time order, problem/ solution, compare/contrast, description, & cause and effect) to support their comprehension of non-fiction texts. In writing, students develop essays with clear thesis statements and use evidence to support their arguments. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What non-fiction text structures do authors use in NF books and why? Why aren't all non-fiction books written the same way? How can an author use text structures from NF reading in our own writing? As an author, how do I use NF text structures to present a position? STUDENTS WILL KNOW/UNDERSTAND... ...organizational structure and genre language can help them understand text and locate information. ...strategies to infer unfamiliar words from context and expand vocabulary. ...how to make predictions and draw conclusions in nonfiction texts. ...how to locate and paraphrase main ideas and details in nonfiction texts. (In Writing) ...develop clear compelling thesis statements and use evidence to support their arguments. ...take a position on an issue and write persuasively to convince readers. ...offer possible solutions to address an issue.
STANDARD ADDRESSED Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences. Standard 3: Students write and speak using formal grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization and spelling. Standard 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing,speaking, listening and writing. Standard 5: Students read to locate, select, evaluate, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources. BODY OF EVIDENCE: Reading: Non-Fiction text structure Pre-Test. Students match text structure stickies to copies of actual NF text. Can students identify text structures in context? Writing: Pre-Test prompt...Write an essay about an health issue you care strongly about with evidence. Formative assessments: Observation notes Conferences Summative Assessments: READING: post-test which will be the same task as the pretest matching NF text structures with actual text examples WRITING: Final published essays Scored with Rubric developed during Unit
Start Date: 9/20/11 End Date: 10/21/11
UNIT OVERVIEW:
This unit focuses on developing strategies to support students in reading and writing non-fiction. In reading, students will use non-fiction text structures (time order, problem/ solution, compare/contrast, description, & cause and effect) to support their comprehension of non-fiction texts.
In writing, students develop essays with clear thesis statements and use evidence to support their arguments.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What non-fiction text structures do authors use in NF books and why?
Why aren't all non-fiction books written the same way?
How can an author use text structures from NF reading in our own writing?
As an author, how do I use NF text structures to present a position?
STUDENTS WILL KNOW/UNDERSTAND...
...organizational structure and genre language can help them understand text and locate information.
...strategies to infer unfamiliar words from context and expand vocabulary.
...how to make predictions and draw conclusions in nonfiction texts.
...how to locate and paraphrase main ideas and details in nonfiction texts.
(In Writing)
...develop clear compelling thesis statements and use evidence to support their arguments.
...take a position on an issue and write persuasively to convince readers.
...offer possible solutions to address an issue.
STANDARD ADDRESSED
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Standard 3: Students write and speak using formal grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization and spelling.
Standard 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing,speaking, listening and writing.
Standard 5: Students read to locate, select, evaluate, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
BODY OF EVIDENCE:
Reading: Non-Fiction text structure Pre-Test. Students match text structure stickies to copies of actual NF text. Can students identify text structures in context?
Writing: Pre-Test prompt...Write an essay about an health issue you care strongly about with evidence.
Formative assessments:
Observation notes
Conferences
Summative Assessments:
READING: post-test which will be the same task as the pretest matching NF text structures with actual text examples
WRITING:
Final published essays
Scored with Rubric developed during Unit